Jan van Goyen

Gerard ter Borch : "Portrait of Jan van Goyen"

Jan Josephszoon van Goyen ([ ˈjɑn vɑŋ ˈɣoːjə (n) ]; born January 13, 1596 in Leiden , † April 27, 1656 in The Hague ) was a Dutch landscape painter .

Short biography

• Born in 1596 in Leiden as the son of a shoemaker
• at the age of 10 he received his first painting lessons
• within two years he passes through the workshops of four teachers
• During this time, he decided to become a landscape painter instead of a glass painter
• in Hoorn he received his further training from the landscape painter Willem Gerritsz
• After a trip through France, he completed his training with a year of study in Haarlem with Esaias van de Velde
• 1618 marriage with Annetje Willemsdr. van Raelst in Leiden and opening his own studio
• in addition to painting and selling his pictures, Jan van Goyen u. a. also active as an art valuer and dealer, real estate dealer, property and tulip speculator , but with all of this he was denied economic success
• 1632 Relocation with his daughters and his wife to The Hague , where he stayed until the end of his life
• Here too he continued his (unsuccessful) business activities, so that in 1656, the year of his death, he left a debt of 18,000 guilders
• however, economic failure and debts did not affect his artistic work, which makes viewing even one of his pictures immediately clear

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Alongside Salomon van Ruysdael and Pieter de Molyn , Jan van Goyen is considered to be the main representative of so-called tonal landscape painting, which developed in the late 1920s.

His main works impress with their safe and tense, perspective diagonals that play out against the horizontal line of the horizon. These, as well as his sparing application of paint in the more mature works, the inclusion of the translucent painting ground and his limitation to an almost monochrome palette , make his pictures unmistakable even in the unbelievable abundance of excellent Dutch landscape painting of the 17th century.

gallery

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  View of the Merwede near Dordrecht, around 1660, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

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  View of Emmerich, 16945 Cleveland Museum of Art

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  The Haarlem Sea, 1656, Städel

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  Dune landscape, around 1630, Kunsthistorisches Museum

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  River landscape with fishermen

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  Landscape with two oak trees, 1641, Rijksmuseum

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  Montfort Castle, 1645, Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum

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  Summer by the River, 1643, Old Masters Picture Gallery, Dresden

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  Farmhouse, 1632, Hamburger Kunsthalle

literature

• Carl von Lemcke:  Goyen, Jan Josephszoon van . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, p. 522 f.
• Otto Hirschmann : Goyen (Goien), Jan Josephsz. van . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 14 : Giddens-Gress . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1921, p. 460–463 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Anna Dobrzycka: Jan van Goyen 1596-1656 . Poznan 1966.
• Hans-Ulrich Beck: Jan van Goyen 1596–1656, an oeuvre catalog. 4 volumes.
  • 1: Introduction, catalog of hand drawings . Amsterdam 1972. ISBN 90-6300-306-4 .
  • 2: Catalog of the paintings . Amsterdam 1973. ISBN 90-6300-307-2 .
  • 3: Additions to the catalog of hand drawings and additions to the catalog of paintings . Doornspijk 1987. ISBN 90-70288-44-3 .
  • 4: Artist around Jan van Goyen - painter and draftsman . Doornspijk 1991. ISBN 90-70288-72-9 .
• Goyen, Jan van . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 59, Saur, Munich a. a. 2008, ISBN 978-3-598-22799-8 , p. 445.

Web links

Commons : Jan van Goyen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Jan van Goyen in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by Jan van Goyen at Zeno.org .
• Franz Ossing: An ordinary sky by an extraordinary painter. ((PDF file; 148 kB)) Jan van Goyen, “Auf der Düne”, oil on wood, 1642, Museum of Fine Arts, Leipzig, inv. No. 590. In: wegezurkunst. GFZ, accessed on January 21, 2011 (on meteorology from van Goyen). 
• Benedikt Erenz: An exhibition in Leiden: The landscapes of Jan van Goyen. The Lord of the Clouds. In: The time. 1996, accessed January 21, 2011 .